Copies of Wüst House pattern playing cards

Various factories have printed copies, or near copies, of the first Wüst House pattern playing cards in the hope of increasing their own sales. This was almost certainly due to the quality of Wüst playing cards and the popularity of their design. Copying was common practice in the 19th century especially in Turnhout, Belgium and before European copyright was enforced.
You can see other versions by Goodall here and here.

Christian Heinrich Reuter was a playing card manufacturer in Nürnberg who started in the 1820's. I can find no record of when they stopped printing. They produced two packs which copy the Wüst House pattern, both of which I will fully illustrate below. Strangely, the jack of spades has a different face compared to those on the other jacks.

The first pack dates from about 1885 with a tax stamp from Nürnberg used between 1879 and 1889. The colours used are almost the same as those used by Wüst, but the makers name is now on the jack of spades instead of the jack of clubs. It is good quality pack of 52 cards with gold corners.

The second pack is later and dates from about 1912. It is of cheaper quality and has square corners with indices only on the pip cards. The aces are illustrated with monochrome views of places in Luxemburg and the ace of hearts has a Luxemburg tax stamp dating from after 1911.

Below: the back and a pip card from the second pack:

References: Catalogue of Playing Cards from the factory C.L.Wüst, set 80. Shaw/Symons 2005,

All cards shown are from the collection of Paul Symons ©